I have an idea for a new thread...

[Slowbee]

If you get the time, you can do a day of white water rafting from Jinja. It's brilliant, floating down the Nile, interspersed with moments of sheer terror as you approach the rapids.

 

Think we did it with these guys:

 

https://www.raftafrica.com/activities/grade-5-full-day-rafting/

aaahh man jealous!

 

however, Laura, who will be 10 or 11, might not like the idea!

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

Yes, but difficult to make fun of. Unless you have pointy ears and a Trekkie uniform?

Live long and prosper

[Readsalot]

aaahh man jealous!

 

however, Laura, who will be 10 or 11, might not like the idea!

 

Yeah, mebbe not. I remember at one rapid as we plummeted down I had fallen out and looked up and the raft was actually above me... 

[DJR]

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The Great Wall of India?

[Sidersky]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB.  (ORT)

Wow that's interesting... I was always under the impression Concorde couldn't (or wasn't allowed) to fly into JHB due to noise regulations or something.

 

Also, when standing next to one on the ground, you realise how much smaller it is than most modern planes. Much like the first time you get close to the A380 a small part of you thinks 'this thing is NEVER going to get off the ground'

[Readsalot]

Live long and prosper

 

I always liked Kirk's philosophy which seemed to be go forth and multiply.

 

[Patchelicious]

I always liked Kirk's philosophy which seemed to be go forth and multiply.

 

Apparently Kirk prefered to "go frothy and multiply"

[CAAD4]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB. (ORT)

We had a walk around inside it when it was on the apron in Cape Town. Damn it was tight in there.

[Velouria]

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Cannot find any pics of the concorde in CT.

 

This one is from JHB.  (ORT)

 

 

Concorde 002 parked away from the terminal at Cape Town airport during South African visit for "Hot & high" trials at Johannesburg, January 22 - February 20 1973.

 

 

From here: http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Aircraft-Corporation-Aerospatiale-France/Sud-BAC-Concorde/433556

[Slowbee]

[Shebeen]

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South African Free Climber Matt Bush.

epic photo - can just see my home in there!

[Sidersky]

Ja nee...

[Fruity]

http://i.imgur.com/gTVAuix.png

[geomark]

[johnson]

Sometime in April of 1987 we flew from Jan Smuts (Johannesburg) to Louis Botha (Durban) for the school holiday. The flight was delayed because of some problem with the aircraft. Repairs and maintenance would have taken to long so they decided to use another aircraft for the flight. SAL Boeing 747 Helderberg ZS-SAS was mostly used for international flights. At the time it didn't have any flights scheduled but was ready to fly so they decided to use it for that flight. Seven months later on 28 November 1987, Helderberg was coming home from Taiwan. Apparently a fire started somewhere in the cargo area and things went south from there. Helderberg went down in to the Indian ocean somewhere near Mauritius killing 159 people.   

[Bateleur1]

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Which cockpit is this?